Members of 104 Signal Squadron Radio Troop were a spirited bunch of guys who worked hard on radio shifts seven days a week, with most of the major units of the task force.   While detached to their host units, they would develop drinking and other skills, with assistance from the grunts, engineers, flyboys, ARVN, yanks and other miscellaneous types.

Radio Troop members on arriving back to 104, normally for a brief visit, would always have a few (many) drinks in the OR’s Club and normally trouble would occur!

One day in 1968, the OC, Maj Norm Munro learnt of a bunch of Radio Troop members returning to the unit and called for the Radio Troop Commander Lt Ken Twining.   Norm’s words to Ken were something like this "Your bunch of fucking feral’s are coming back tonight and I want no trouble in the canteen …. @#$#@# ...     You are responsible to keep these feral’s out of the shit or you will .... #@#$#@ …".  

Poor Ken had no way of controlling the guys and from this one sided discussion the name 'F Troop' was born for Radio Troop.